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slav·er·y
sleI v ri [or] sleIv ri
词根:slave
adj.slavish 奴隶的;奴性的;卑屈的;盲从的
slaveholding 蓄奴的;拥有奴隶的
adv.slavishly 奴隶般地
n.slave 奴隶;从动装置
slaver 口水;奴隶贩卖船;奴隶商人;谄媚;诱骗女子为娼者
slaveholder 奴隶所有者
slaveholding 拥有奴隶
vi.slave 苦干;拼命工作
slaver 淌口水
vt.slaver 淌口水弄湿;淌口水弄脏
noun
the practice or institution of holding people as chattel involuntarily and under threat of violence Slavery officially ended in New Jersey in 1804, but in practice some people remained slaves until 1865, when the ratification of the 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States.—Suzanne Travers
In reality, though, African forms of slavery didn't compare with the racialized industrial variants that Western empires unleashed upon the world. … Here in the United States … the enslaved were relegated to subhuman status for generations.—Julian Lucas
the state of a person who is forced usually under threat of violence to labor for the profit of another The organization says it has helped 135 victims escape sex slavery over the past 10 years.—Audrey McAvoy
[Frederick] Douglass, born a slave in Maryland in 1818, escaped from slavery at the age of twenty and quickly emerged as a major orator and leader of the antislavery crusade.—Manning Marable
a situation or practice in which people are entrapped (as by debt) and exploited Many members of my own family, including my mother and father, fled their work as sharecroppers in the South. They left for good reason: the profession offered no future and was little more than wage slavery.—Will Allen
… the unit has freed more than 26,000 workers nationwide from debt slavery. Under the practice, common in the Amazon, poor laborers are lured to remote spots where they rack up debts to plantation owners who charge exorbitant prices for everything from food to transportation.—Vivian Sequera
submission to a dominating influence … it will probably be left to the next administration to act hopefully in a bold and visionary manner to free us from our slavery to oil.—Alon Ben-Meir
slavery to habit
1550年代,“严苛的劳累,辛苦的工作,苦差事”; 来自 slave(动词)+ -ery。 “奴隶状态,奴役状态,完全服从于他人的意志和命令” 的意思来自1570年代; “奴隶的保持或持有” 的意义来自1728年。
奴隶制度
The first known use of slavery was in 1548
slavishadjective
of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude
lacking in independence or originality
slavish imitators
slave1 of 2noun
a person held in forced servitude
disapproving a person who is completely subservient to a dominating influence
a slave to bad habits
a person who performs difficult or boring work : drudge
slave2 of 2verb
to work like a slave : drudge
slave1 of 2noun
a person held in forced servitude
disapproving a person who is completely subservient to a dominating influence
a slave to bad habits
a person who performs difficult or boring work : drudge
slave2 of 2verb
to work like a slave : drudge
slaverynoun
drudgery, toil
the state of a person who is held in forced servitude
the practice of slaveholding
1 Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
精神奴役需要自我解放,除了自己, 旁人没有办法解放咱们的脑筋.
2 She had heard stories about the cruelties of slavery from the older black people around Martinsburg, West Virginia.
3 Just as Jackson had warned, opposition to the slave trade was now being linked to ending slavery altogether.
4 In May, Congress adopts a gag rule designed to prohibit any discussion of petitions related to slavery.
5 He fought with us against the slavery.
他同我们一道与奴隶制进行斗争.
6 Slavery was abolished in America after the Civil War in the 19 th century.
美国的奴隶制度是19世纪时南北战争以后被废止的.
7 Like many people in his corner of Ohio, Garfield had long opposed slavery.
8 At first, the Grimké sisters were invited by the American Anti-Slavery Society to discuss their experiences with slavery with small groups of women in private parlors.
9 A plantation owner who lived openly with a slave woman would have been socially ostracized, and any offspring from the union of black and white would have been left in slavery.
10 FitzRoy defended slavery, stating that some slaves were happy because their masters were good to them.
11 I knew about slavery; I’d heard Dad talk about it, and I’d read about it in Dad’s favorite book on the American founding.
12 There is slavery to the mind.
我们被头脑奴役着。
13 The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.
14 In later years his films began addressing such issues as The Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism.
在随后几年他的电影开始处理的大屠杀, 奴役, 战争和恐怖主义等问题.
15 The Quakers here didn’t hold with slavery and tried hard to convince others that slavery was against God’s will.
16 Slavery played a major role in the settlement of the colonies.
奴役在殖民地的形成中发挥了重要作用.
17 Clippinger then requested us to urge them to throw off the bonds of slavery.
18 But we also need to recognize that in the short run, during and immediately after the war for independence, there was a prevailing consensus that slavery was already on the road to extinction.
19 For many years, the notion that slavery had always been practiced—and, more important, approved by the Bible—was used by many Americans to defend slavery.
20 Over the course of the next four decades, the national debate over slavery and its expansion into the West was often framed as an argument over the intent of the founders.
1 沉迷
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3 感情迸发的
4 奴隶身份
6 奴隶身分
7 屈从
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8 奴役
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10 泥泞
founderous dirty foul muddy greasy slushy splashy slobbery miry sloughy heavy wet mud sludge quagmire puddle
11 淌口水的
12 束缚
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13 奴隶制
14 流口水
17 懒散
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19 奴隶状态
20 过分依赖
22 懒散的
fat loose floppy laid-back easygoing trifling slouchy slothful slovenly dragging slobbery sluttish sloven logy
24 马虎
sloppy careless negligent remiss toothless slovenly slipshod slobbery slapdash sloven slap-bang slack all anyhow
25 苦差事
26 马虎的
sloppy careless negligent remiss toothless slovenly slipshod slobbery slapdash sloven slap-bang
27 贱役